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Tablets are pretty versatile: You can check email, browse the Web, play games, listen to music and whatnot. And that’s exactly what people who use iPads and Galaxy tablets do, according to Statista , which looked at a survey from Kantar Worldpanel that asked people what they frequently use their devices for. Apple and Samsung customers use their tablets much in the same ways. (One area where Samsung tablet users stood out: listening to music.) Kindle Fire users, though, aren’t in the same mold. They check email much less compared to iPad and Galaxy customers. And no other category comes to close to the one thing many Kindle Fire owners say they do frequently on the device: read. That makes sense, considering how much books and reading are in Amazon’s DNA